Two children were marked for death and the target of their mother’s rage – at their father.

Police arrested 21-year old Christian Clark of McKeesport and accused her of murdering her 17-month-old boy and attempting to kill her 2-year-old daughter.

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The toddler was found unresponsive in a McKeesport home on Tuesday.

Police were called to an apartment in the Hi View Gardens housing complex for a call about an unresponsive child.

A criminal complaint says the boy’s death followed a series of text messages from Clark to the kids’ father, accusing him of sleeping with other women and demanding that he return home Tuesday night or else she would kill their children.

Police said they found the 17-month-old boy unresponsive, and paramedics transported him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Clark said the father of the child, Andre Price Jr., had been in the apartment that afternoon but left earlier to travel.

Clark said she had been arguing with Price before he left.

According to the criminal complaint, Clark exchanged text messages with Price after he left the apartment, allegedly saying things like,“Ya kids ain’t safe here I don’t want them here,” “So you better pray for your kids”and “I’m killing them,” with a laughing emoji at the end of the message.

At various points, Clark also texted photos of each child - including one of the boy face-down on an air mattress with his face in a comforter.

By 10:14 p.m., Clark sent the first video, showing the children lying face-down with Clark narrating, "Ahh look Angel is still alive and sweating your son on the other hand is not even breathing, I wish I could keep the camera still."

Another video five minutes later showed Clark grabbing Angel’s head, prompting the girl to cry. When Clark grabbed the boy’s head, he didn’t respond, police said.

"First of all she is clearly fine, because watch, see she is not dead. Him on the other hand, he doesn’t budge. So you might want to call the ambulance," Clark said in the video. A minute later she texted, "All cus you wanted to go (have sex with) her & come here when you like."

At 10:23 p.m. Clark acknowledged she’s responsible for the boy’s death - and police say she later admitted smothering the boy by holding him face-down on the air mattress for about a minute.

"Im sure it’ll hurt me one im sitting in jail & you got all the evidence you need to I can’t even say he suffocated in his sleep or say idk what happened," Clark texted.

Price responded only six times in the texts printed in the complaint, at one point promising to take a bus home but at other times ignoring Clark’s threats to harm his children. Only after Clark sent a third video at 11:09 p.m., showing her picking up the boy’s limp body by the arm and tossing him on the bed, did Price ask Clark to try to revive him, the complaint said.

"Try to wake him up I said hold him," he texted at 11:10 p.m. "Its okay Im dialing 911," Clark responded. "You need to if he dead," Price said.

County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said authorities did not expect to file any charges against Price, but the investigation is continuing.

Homicide detectives say Clark told them at a hospital that the boy was healthy and had no known medical conditions. She denied harming the boy until police interviewed her again at their Pittsburgh headquarters and told her they had seen Price’s phone and the texts and images she sent.

Clark is lodged in the Allegheny County Jail on charges on criminal homicide and attempted homicide.